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Tech pioneers & interviews is a topic archive of videos linked in Hacker News comments. This snapshot contains 362 videos and 2,476 labeled comments across 2007–2026. That is an average of 6.8 linked comments per video. The summed 823 recommender entries are counted per video, so one HN user can appear in more than one topic video.
This page answers “what surfaced more recently?”: videos are sorted by their latest Hacker News mention year. For a different question—“which talks have the most distinct recommenders?”—use the topic's Best Talks list when at least 20 talks are available. This topic has 106 cataloged talks. Its average per-video recommender count is 2.3; neither this metric nor recency represents YouTube views or a quality rating.
Topic labels follow the published taxonomy and may overlap. Use the filters to narrow by format, learning level, catalog shelf life, or how many distinct months a video received recommendations. Open a video record to compare it with same-topic videos and inspect its underlying HN context.

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Bill Pugh

Talks at Google

Marcel

Muon Ray

Erlang Solutions

Computer History Museum

Lex Fridman

DEMO

Colin McDonnell

Strange Loop Conference

gentooman

Barely Sociable

Lex Fridman

Jonathan Field

Bo Manton

Dave's Garage

JSConf

Designer's Digest

JetBrains

Lex Fridman

Manufacturing Intellect

JC

Alex Kantrowitz

National Security Agency

Talks at Google

naji1234

budagum

Yoshiki Ohshima (大島芳樹)

Computer History Museum

Linus Tech Tips

UC Berkeley Events

Николай Товеровский

PowerfulJRE

Think Multiply

JoshuaG

Steve Jobs

Vibe Coding With Steve and Gene

MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Milan Lajtoš

Joseph Spiros

GitHub

Dwarkesh Patel

Interesting Times

Talks at Google

Arthur Vard

Erin Casali

Vickin Kane
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